Maureen K Michael

Maureen Michael is a lecturer in Professional Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling. Her research explores professional learning using a combination of arts-based and sociomaterial perspectives. Maureen creates drawings, photographs and digital collages to illustrate, challenge and shape the ways in which we might understand the materiality of educational practices.

Colouring-in books for grown-ups have become extremely popular in bookshops and online stores. They are promoted as agents of ‘mindfulness’ and often contain outlines of flowers, geometric patterns, and intricate lettering which you are invited to colour-in with pencils, felt-tip pens or paint. Not often associated with the study of professions and professional practices, colouring-in might seem a strange topic… Read more →